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  • Red Hat offers software warranty

    In response to SCO Group's legal action against Linux, Red Hat is offering new legal protection that guarantees the company will replace any code found to infringe copyrights.

  • Linux users: Speed up your hard drive

    As more end users are considering the Linux alternative, it is time to look at which distribution is best. Also, quick tips for speeding up your hard drive.

  • Pogo Linux 1U: The Jack-of-all-trades server

    Small to midsize companies looking for a jack-of-all-trades server need only look at the Pogo Linux 1U rack-mount server. Columnist Jack Wallen, Jr. looks under the hood of this beast and finds that it offers plenty of room to grow.

  • Qantas ditches Linux for AIX

    Qantas will next month shift the underlying platform running its internal finance systems from Linux to IBM's Unix variant AIX as part of its wide-ranging eQ transformation project.

  • Vista still struggling as Linux finds its feet

    Almost a year on from the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista, only 13 percent of companies say they expect to move all desktops to the operating system, according to a survey released this week. Furthermore, adoption of Linux continues to gather pace, with a particular emphasis on the desktop emerging.

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  • Pogo Linux 1U: The Jack-of-all-trades server

    Small to midsize companies looking for a jack-of-all-trades server need only look at the Pogo Linux 1U rack-mount server. Columnist Jack Wallen, Jr. looks under the hood of this beast and finds that it offers plenty of room to grow.

  • Red Hat aims desktop Linux at Microsoft

    Linux seller Red Hat has announced its first version of the open-source operating system for desktop computers, taking direct aim at Microsoft. Additional reading: Open Source Resource Centre

  • Red Hat: Challenging the Unix crown

    Gus Robertson, Red Hat's vice president for South Asia-Pacific, wants to displace Unix and not Windows as the main enterprise OS but does the Linux vendor have what it takes?

  • Is the FOSS community divided?

    One Linux Australia past president thinks so. In other Linux.conf.au coverage, a leading IT lawyer claims that an expensive and ineffective patent regime is hampering the work of Australia's software community.

  • Linux/Unix viruses demand special attention

    When developing your company's virus protection strategy, don't forget that Linux and Unix systems need to be protected as well.

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  • Mandrake Linux PowerPack Edition 9.1

    Mandrake Linux 9.1 is Linux all grown-up, with easy installation, tons of bundled apps, and pretty fonts, too.

  • New Linux versions follow standard path

    Four new versions of Linux have been certified to comply with guidelines set down by the Linux Standard Base.

  • Alternative OS: Mac OS

    Since the mid-1980s, Apple has been wrestling with Microsoft over which company makes the best operating system. Our head-to-head comparison of the newest Mac OS--OS X--and Windows XP clearly shows the fight is still alive.

  • Web leak of Linux lets Hat out of the bag

    Parts of the newest version of Red Hat's Linux software slipped onto the Internet Wednesday, nearly a week before the operating system's official release date, giving glimpses of a product with a new focus on mainstream computer users.

  • Red Hat's new Linux seeks to unify

    Red Hat has begun an effort to use its position as the dominant seller of the Linux operating system to try to smooth over a long-running divide about the look and feel of the OS.

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